Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Incapacitate

Incapacitate , transitive verb

[Prefix in- not + capacitate.]

1.
To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
2.
(Law) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify.
It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property. — Milman